At The Highest Stage Of Capitalism, The

The Criterion For Free Choice Can Never Be An Absolute One, But Neither Is It Entirely Relative.

To The Degree To Which They Correspond To The Given Reality, Thought And Behavior Express A False Consciousness, Responding To And Contributing To The Preservation Of A False Order Of Facts. And This False Consciousness Has Become Embodied In The Prevailing Technical Apparatus Which In Turn Reproduces It.

Obscenity Is A Moral Concept In The Verbal Arsenal Of The Establishment, Which Abuses The Term By Applying It, Not To Expressions Of Its Own Morality But To Those Of Another.

The Organism Is Thus Being Preconditioned For The Spontaneous Acceptance Of What Is Offered. Inasmuch As The Greater Liberty Involves A Contraction Rather Than Extension And Development Of Instinctual Needs, It Works For Rather Than Against The Status Quo Of General Repression - One Might Speak Of "institutionalized Desublimation". The Latter Appears To Be A Vital Factor In The Making Of The Authoritarian Personality Of Our Time.

Thought That Accepts Reality As Given Is No Thought At All.